Twin Villages Foodbank Farm (TVFF) in Damariscotta is setting an ambitious goal for its second season, growing even more fresh nutrient-dense food to serve many more outlets in Lincoln County.…
Agriculture
Join Midcoast Conservancy for an Invasive Plant Identification workshop on Thursday, May 25 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Led by Hildy Ellis of the Knox-…
Biologist Tim Forrester, a wetland scientist, is an environmental consultant.
Forrester lives with his wife, Bethany, and their children, Ben and Lily, in Woolwich. In the expansive…
There's a manufacturing plant in Boothbay that has been something of a secret for the last year or two. The Boothbay Register ran a story about it a year ago January,…
Chances are the first animal you’ll meet if you go to Blue Tin Farm on Cross Point Road in Edgecomb is a 1-year-old Gloucestershire Old Spot pig named Rosie. She weighs 450 pounds, and she’s a…
“One, two, three … Hay away!” shouted the team of 5- and 6-year-old farmers-in-training as they pushed a hay bale down the chute in Morris Farm’s barn. Resident…
Come on over to the Morris Farm and meet the farmers/fishermen who bring products to your favorite farmers’ market and store this Sunday, April 9 from 1 to 4 p.m. The third annual Farm and Fish…
Invasive plants are becoming more common in Maine. Look near highway exits, ditch banks, and construction sites…
For the fourth year, Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD), in cooperation with Maine Resource and…
This weekend Maine will celebrate its 34th annual Maine Maple Sunday on March 26. The annual event is held every fourth Sunday of March. Participating sugarhouses will be open for visitors to…
Join us for a cooking series beginning March 8, using the Maine Local Twenty, which is the name the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) has given the 20 foods…
The Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant Street, Brunswick will be holding a series of…
A five-week course for farmers and those hoping to farm will begin March 2, 6–9 p.m., at the Farm Service Agency (FSA), 306 U.S. Route 1,…
Last November, Dan Bodmer’s family decided to move from Whitefield to Westport and move in with his father Jerry. Dan’s mother and Jerry’s wife Carol had passed away that summer and Jerry welcomed…
Maine Forest Service District Forester Morten Moesswilde will present a free evening talk, “Stumped About Tree Growth? Understanding Maine’s Tree Growth Tax Law,” in…
Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission
Municipal attorney Ted Kelleher of Drummond Woodsum appeared Jan. 25 at the Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission’s workshop on the marijuana initiative for town officials, “Weeding Through…
If you think a subject like the life cycle of seaweed might be a bit, well, boring, you should have been at Edgecomb Eddy School on Jan. 10.
Most of the students appeared transfixed during a…
Have you ever wondered how seaweed starts its short life, or how long it takes to grow to maturity? How about those long, flat pieces of kelp you’ve seen floating out in the ocean, or attached to…
Newcastle Board of Selectmen
Maine Department of Transportation Commissioner David Bernhardt, Project Manager Deane Van Dusen, and other staff members appeared at a meeting of Sherman Marsh residents and other interested…
Midcoast Conservancy is proud to announce that its Hidden Valley Nature Center was recently awarded the Know-Lincoln Soil and Water Conservation District 2016 Award for Excellence in Forestry…
Rewriting the federal farm bill always brings political fights, but the next bill could be better for Maine farmers thanks to America’s increasing appetite for organic and locally grown goods, U.S…
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District will hold its annual Awards Banquet at the North Nobleboro Community Hall on East Pond Road in Nobleboro on Wednesday, Nov. 2 at…
The Morris Farm Store in Wiscasset is looking for volunteers to help with store operations and contribute to one of two projects: an “easy recipe” project or a “…
Damariscotta Pumpkinfest and Regatta
Pumpkinfest is just around the corner, and on Saturday morning, from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Damariscotta Post Office at 173 Main Street, visitors can obtain a special postmark bearing a picture…
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
There are dozens of organic farms in Lincoln County, and dozens more agricultural businesses, so-called value-added farms, where raw produce is turned into sauces, cheeses, dried floral…
The Boothbay Railway Village invites families to celebrate the bounty of autumn at an old-fashioned, family-friendly festival on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 1 and 2.…
On Sept. 10, The Morris Farm Trust of Wiscasset will hold its 17th annual Tour de Farms, a cycling and car tour through the scenic farmland of Maine’s Midcoast with…
Rising Tide Community Market is currently offering its summer Member-Owner Appreciation Week, which started Saturday, Aug. 13 and runs through Saturday, Aug. 20.…
On Saturday, Sept. 10, the Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation Farm Tour will hit the road! This year's tour puts the spotlight on four fabulous farms in Lincoln County. Participants will…
Lucia Droby lives in a veritable garden of wonders. Her home, on Pleasant Street in Wiscasset, looks out over a courtyard full of delightful garden accessories, some old, some new, a variety of…
On June 30, the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development Agency awarded Goranson Farm of Dresden a $2,939 grant to purchase and install a reverse osmosis system. After…
Healthy Lincoln County
The Healthy Lincoln County Substance Use Prevention Partnership held a meeting Tuesday, June 21, to examine the proposed initiative legalizing marijuana in Maine that will appear on November’s…
The Morris Farm Store will hold an open house on Saturday, June 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Come meet some of our vendors and taste the locally made products. Farm staff will be grilling burgers…
There's a red barn just off Route 1 in Newcastle that will soon be welcoming visitors to come in and see how liquor is made. On July 1…
Wild mushrooms can be scary if you don't know which ones to pick.
As the farm to table movement continues to gain traction across America’s home and professional kitchens, the Chewonki Foundation in Wiscasset is taking it one step further with its innovative…
The barn at Morris Farm is once again filling up with a huge selection of heirloom tomatoes, hardy Maine-grown perennials, and herbs for the educational farm’s annual plant sale this Saturday, May…
Walking into the Sheepscot General Store is a little like walking into, well, let's just say it's not…
The Boothbay Farmers Market’s season on the Boothbay Town Common, 1 Common Drive, Boothbay will begin Thursday, May 12. Vendors will set up on the Common from 9 a.m. to noon on Thursdays through…
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences will be breaking ground on a new Marine Algal Research and Innovation Accelerator (MARIA) on its campus in East Boothbay later this spring. The program’s goal…
When was the last time students just let their inhibitions melt away, flexed their imaginations, and did something just because it was really, really fun? Mt. View…
Wiscasset Planning Board
Depending on how his first acre of hops goes, Christopher Juntera hopes to expand to more of his father Cecilio Juntera’s acreage in Wiscasset and get Maine brewers using more Maine-grown hops.…
The public is invited to The Morris Farm to meet your local food suppliers and sign up for a CSA/CSF Share. Tastings, food, beverages and music on…
There's a new flower shop in Wiscasset. It's small in stature, but full of a variety of gift items and greeting cards, as well as houseplants and fresh flowers for a…
With the Maine craft beer craze in full frenzy and showing no signs of slowing down, Southport resident Mike Barker has launched a hop-growing operation in Alna in hopes of providing local brewers…
Midcoast Conservancey
Midcoast Conservancy will host a wild apple pruning workshop, Monday, April 11 from 2 to 4 p.m. (April 18 is the rain date) at…
Maine imports hundreds of millions of metric tons of petroleum a year, and that’s a problem, a speaker at Saturday’s “Solar Celebration” at Morris Farm in Wiscasset said.
It’s a problem…
A preserve of Maine Coast Heritage Trust
ROCKPORT — Maine Coast Heritage Trust invites students in grades third-twelfth to submit an original poster design for Aldermere Farm's…
Newcastle Local Planning Committee
Newcastle’s Local Planning Committee has finalized its plans for a mid-spring extravaganza that will encourage residents to come out and participate in the development of the town’s comprehensive…
A story ran in the August 4, 1972 issue of the Portland Press Herald with the headline: “A Future for Seaweed?”
The answer is yes.…
